Reporting in WirtschaftsBlatt, an Austrian national newspaper, Tele2 is working with 3 Austria to secure an MVNO contract.
The CEO is quoted in Reuters saying: "As a global company, we are focused on mobile. For us, it's not about selling SIM cards as cheaply as possible but about offering a comprehensive fixed-mobile service."
With a fixed operation still active in Austria with a subscriber base of 300,000 customers, this probably suggests a fixed mobile offering as opposed to any mass market push by Tele2
The MVNO market now numbers over 600 operations. Their proliferation is widespread throughout Europe, North America and many Asian countries and more recently the sector has seen launches in the Middle East. The sector contains headline grabbing operations with activities in multiple markets through to small players with revenue positive operations based upon incredibly niche markets. As a sector the MVNO market is incredibly active with launches, buy outs and failures.
